Managing Director, Foundation - Lewiston - Androscoggin Bank

Description

Bates Mill
30 Lisbon Street
Lewiston, ME 04240, USA

Portland Banking & Inv.
130 Middle Street
Portland, ME 04101, USA

Overview

The Managing Director of the Bank's Foundation will be responsible for providing thought leadership as well as designing and implementing strategies and programs that advance the Bank's Community Engagement and direct investment of the Foundation's resources in line with the Bank's Mission, Vision and Values. This position requires a unique combination of non-profit expertise, community building and advocacy, employee engagement, project management expertise as well as public relations and event planning abilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Strategic Leadership
   • Develop and implement a long-term strategic plan in coordination with key stakeholders.
   • Lead development of the Foundation's external voice on advocacy areas and issues.
   • Represent the Bank and Foundation at community events and in service to steering committees, boards of issue aligned nonprofits and community leadership.
   • Work with the Director of Corporate Impact and Foundation Chair to gain alignment on strategic direction of the Bank & Foundation's effort.
   • Advise the Director of Corporate Impact on related strategic development initiatives and opportunities.
2. Community Engagement
   • Act as the primary liaison for Community Engagement for the Bank and Foundation.
   • Effectively build relationships with leadership of various non-profits as identified in our Community Engagement plan.
   • Develop a deep understanding of various organizations, their missions, strategies, challenges, and opportunities for volunteerism and philanthropy; implement a process for tracking and communicating broadly. Identify ways in which the Bank can partner with these organizations to solve challenges and improve outcomes and potentially leverage other Bank relationships for their cause.
   • Explore potential other measures of impact such as the Bank's impact on organizations or community initiatives. Effectively communicate results throughout the Bank and externally through social media and other public relations channels.
   • Recommend and support development of potential products, partnerships or other ways that the Bank can address unmet community needs with a lens on underrepresented or systemically marginalized groups.
3. Stakeholder Engagement
   • Support the Bank's internal volunteerism committee by connecting the committee and employees to service opportunities with partner organizations and other organizations in the community.
   • Lead the integration of a newly formed Foundation Board and Working Groups inclusive of the Bank's Colleagues, Clients and Community stakeholders.
   • Maintain and improve dashboard reporting of the Bank's impact on the community as measured in dollars donated and time donated by employees.
4. Foundation Governance
   • Develop, execute and make recommendations on the Foundation's Operational Plan to include maintenance of the Foundation's Corpus, Grant planning and tracking.
   • Lead implementation of software and systems to effectively and efficiently receive, track, decide and communicate all gift decisions.
   • Process and track payments to all Foundation gift recipients.
   • Maintain governance of all required legal filings and established processes.
   • Prepare for, support and close out required audits for the Foundation in a timely manner.
   • Ensure proper documentation of all community engagement partner touch points and decisions within CRM.
   • Resolve questions, complaints or feedback in line with the Bank's client complaint process.

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience:

• 5-10 plus years of professional work experience with a proven track record of nonprofit leadership, community engagement, and advocacy, strong social media and public relations exposure, event planning.

Other Qualifications:

• Ability to regularly represent the Bank at community events including nights and weekends.
• Proven experience as a leader of projects and multi-disciplinary teams
• Excellent understanding of the Bank's community and non-profit service providers
• Highly creative with ability to think out of box
• Experience developing and managing volunteerism and philanthropic programming
• Proven ability to integrate key tenets of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion into program design
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven thinking
• Advanced written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Up to date with latest trends and marketing best practices associated with philanthropy
• Comfortable working with numbers, metrics and spreadsheets
• Experience with a variety of software, including the Adobe Design Suite of products as well as Microsoft Office products.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities and tasks.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines and complete work in a timely manner.
• Ability to align work with business strategy and multiple initiatives.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Ability to travel and drive to external locations. Extended time on phone or computer.

The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

Flexible Work Location

By the nature of this role, meeting community stakeholders in their own communities' demands flexibility in daily work location. Initially this role will require a minimum of four days' working from a bank location.

This position has great benefits, including paid time off, holiday pay, 401k participation with a generous match (we put money in your 401k even if you don\'t), and access to Androscoggin Bank\'s full insurance benefit package(medical, dental, vision, life, and disability).

Do you wish you could be more involved and connected in your company, beyond the level of your department? Androscoggin Bank offers that to you. Project teams, committees, events, in-house education, and more. It's an amazing place to work.

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Androscoggin Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, including gender identity and gender expression, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information or veteran status.

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